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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically if new cluster is added

Allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically from a silo cluster that is heavyly used to a new cluster when this one is available.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

Support SP calls using DVM DRDA

The customer is migrating from Shadow to DVM and found out the hard way that SP calls are not supported under DRDA. Switching all the SP calls to RRS is not acceptable due to overhead and non zIIP eligibility.
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for NFS 4.2 on AIX 7.2

Sparse file support was added in NFSv4.2 and currently AIX supports NFS4.1 which does not have sparse capability. DB2 only supports fast pre-allocation on some file systems. Including Veritas VxFS, JFS2, GPFS, ext4 and xFS. Kindly include the supp...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Binaries

To allow us to update automatically and no longer manually, we would strongly like to have these fixPacks/binaries in rpm form (both the agents and the access server).
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Restrict "Create Calculation" for specific data Items in Framework Manager.

Idea is to restrict users to create calculatoin for specific data Items. we don't want to remove "Create Calculation" globally for all data items. (By unchecking create calculation from capabilities).
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Copy on Package but Allow for Development Using Dev Tool

We would like the ability to restrict copying on packages while still allowing users to develop reports against that package. We have worked with IBM Technical Support and tried many options (refer to: 33942,227,000) but not one of the options rec...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA - DBCS character errors on IDAA table after loading data

Converting Service Request 53184,L6Q,000 to an RFE. When EBCDIC DBCS characters are loaded to an IDAA table on a MIXED=YES subsystem, the double width space character x'4040' is converted to x'FEFE' for GRAPHIC and VARGRAPHIC columns. This causes ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make spectrum conductor token viability duration configurable.

When we schedule jobs over the weekend to run for Monday morning, the jobs do not run on Monday morning as expected, but give "Expired Credentials" error. These credentials do not expire as they are service accounts. This happens also for Admin ac...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration